Liner for a mixing container and an assembly and method for mixing fluid components
AssigneeCDF Corporation
InventorJoseph J. Sullivan, Jr.
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Abstract
A liner for use in a mixing container which is adapted to receive a mixing shaft having an open tubular distal end and having mixing members mounted thereon for mixing materials disposed in the container, includes a tubular sleeve substantially closed at a first end thereof by an end wall and open at a second end thereof, and an elongated substantially rigid protrusion fixed to the interior of the sleeve end wall centrally of the sleeve end wall, extending toward the second end of the sleeve, and adapted to receive thereon the open tubular distal end of the shaft.
Claims19
A liner for use in a mixing container, the container being adapted to receive a mixing shaft having an open distal end and having mixing members mounted thereon for mixing materials disposed in the container, the liner comprising:
- a tubular sleeve substantially closed at a first end thereof by an end wall and open at a second end thereof;
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- an elongated solid protrusion fixed to the interior of said sleeve end wall centrally of said sleeve end wall, extendible toward the second end of said sleeve and adapted to receive thereon the open tubular distal end of the shaft.
A liner for use with a paint mixing container having a bottom wall and an upstanding circular side wall, and adapted to receive a mixing shaft having an open distal end and mixing members extending outwardly from the shaft, the liner comprising:
- a fluid-impervious sleeve closed at a bottom end thereof and open at a top end thereof, said sleeve being adapted to assume a configuration generally complementary to the interior configuration of the container;
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- a solid protrusion fixed to and upstanding from the interior bottom end of said sleeve, said protrusion being of a configuration generally complementary to the configuration of the interior of the open distal end of the mixing shaft;
- wherein said liner is insertable into the container and said protrusion is adapted to receive the distal end of the mixing shaft, the mixing shaft being turnable on said protrusion to move the mixing member through paint in the container, to mix the paint.
An assembly for mixing fluid components, the assembly comprising:
- a mixing container having a closed first end and an open second end;
- a liner for disposition, within said container, said liner comprising:
- a sleeve closed at a first end thereof and open at a second end thereof, said sleeve having a configuration generally complementary to the interior configuration of said container;
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- a solid protrusion fixed to and upstanding from the closed first end of said sleeve;
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- a mixing shaft mountable over said protrusion and having mixing members fixed thereon, said shaft being rotatable on said protrusion to move said mixing members in said liner;
- said liner constituting a barrier between said container and said fluid components, and further constituting a mount for rotatably supporting said mixing shaft.
A method for mixing fluid components, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a mixing container having a closed bottom end and an open top end;
- providing a cover member for the container, the cover member having a hole centrally thereof;
- providing a mixing assembly including a rotatable shaft and mixing members fixed to the shaft, said shaft having an open tubular bottom end;
- providing a liner comprising a sleeve having a closed bottom end and an open top end, said sleeve having a configuration generally complementary to the interior configuration of the container, said sleeve including a solid protrusion fixed to the bottom end of the sleeve and upstanding therefrom;
- inserting said liner in the container;
- admitting the fluid components to the liner, causing the liner to lie against the inner surfaces of the container;
- positioning the mixing assembly shaft on the liner rigid protrusion;
- closing the open top end of the container with the cover member, the shaft extending through the hole in the cover member;
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- rotating the shaft on the liner rigid protrusion such that the mixing members move through and mix the fluid components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.